“He’s a mouthy, cocky kid who’s only about 5-foot-6, but he can really play. He really believes he’s Babe Ruth.”

Pedroia interrupted the coach’s speech to the team while Murphy was saying not one person is more important than another.

“I got to be honest, coach, you’re going to win a lot more games with me than without me.”

4. The time he went off on Kevin Millar

In 2008, when former Red Sox Kevin Millar was playing for the Orioles, Pedroia showed no signs of missing Millar.

“There he is,” Pedroia said. “The only opposing player who gets his own song played for him when he comes to the plate at Fenway. I’m telling you, if they play that song tonight, I’m stopping the game. I’m going up to the booth and fighting the guy at the controls. Enough already.”

Pedroia even jumped out of the dugout and shouted to Millar.

“Hey, 2004 was like 20 years ago! And all you did was walk! Mariano let four fly! It was not, like, some 12-pitch at-bat!”

He then went on to imitate Millar’s stance in that critical Game 4 moment against the Yankees with the Red Sox three outs away from elimination.

“Ball 1, ball 2, ball 3, ball 4,” he said. “That’s all you did.”

3. The time he bashed his hometown

Pedroia was born in Woodland, California, about 20 miles northwest of Sacramento. Often described as a place being something out of Our Town, Pedroia did not seem to agree.

“It’s a dump,” said Pedroia in a 2009 interview. “You can quote me on that. I don’t give a [expletive].” He shakes his head.

Pedroia claims that he’s angry with the town for something he won’t talk about though.

“Everyone wants to get out of there,” he said. “You don’t want to stay in Woodland. What do you want to stay in Woodland for? The place sucks. The newspaper there, I don’t really get along with. I come from your town. You should embrace me. I play for the Boston Red Sox. You haven’t had a lot of major-leaguers come out of your city.”

2. The time he was “sexy and he knows it”

In Terry Francona‘s book, Francona mentioned that the Red Sox owners did a marketing survey that determined Dustin Pedroia was a “sexy” player and that the team needed more such players.

About The Author

Kimberly PetalasKimberly graduated from Hofstra University in December 2012. She has been a sports fan her whole life and grew up around sports, whether it was playing or watching them. She started her writing career interning for her local newspaper, The Gardner News, where she currently works as a reporter. In college, Kimberly wrote for Long Island Report, as well as Her Campus Hofstra.

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